This is the story about a convicted Satmar drugdealer who after his release from prison tries to get back into hes community. Although he doesn’t sound like the smartest cookie out there, and that’s probably the reason he was chosen to do the things he did with the drugs. And it’s a little obvious that he doesn’t want to fully integrate into the community he wants to eat the cake and have it (no p
Samuel Leibowitz is a member of an ultraorthodox Jewish sect and has been in prison for the last 9 years for drug trafficking. Released from prison he plans to return to his community in North London to try and live once again the life of an observant Hasidic Jew.Samuel comes from Stamford Hill a closed community in the United Kingdom that is hostile to the media and has almost never bee
The Hard Man is a 52 minute documentary which was made in 1995 about a man called Michael Kelly who is a former criminal from the Southhill area of Limerick City, Ireland. The film examines the social environment from which Kelly emerged and highlights the key role alcohol played in guiding Kelly down the path of violence and crime.After having wasted 17 years of his life going in and our of c
Ripped from international headlines, The Hacker Wars takes us directly to the front lines of the battle for the fate of the Internet, freedom and privacy. The film itself tells us the story of an anarchic troll provocateur known as Andrew "weev" Aurenheimer, a prodigy hacker called Jeremy Hammond, and incendiary watchdog journalist Barrett Brown - three larger than life characters whose separate q
February 24th 1991, American tanks roll across the Saudi Arabian desert towards the Iraq border, their part of a multinational force with a clear and simple mission, to drive Saddam Hussein's Iraqi army out of Kuwait. Having a large army but a devastated economy after his war efforts Hussein's goal was to take control of Kuwait's oil rich emirate and they did so in just over 36 hours. Having ignor
In the winter of 1991 amid the burning oil wells of Kuwait two armies faced each other in the desert at stake were the oil wells of the Middle East and America's leadership in the world. The war in the Persian Gulf would be the first test after the Cold War of America's promise of a new world order.For the American military this would be a war fought on two fronts against an Iraqi army entrenche
British Channel 4 engaged the Team Delta Cadre to recreate the Guantanamo Bay interrogation experience.At the production company’s request, along with Team Delta’s normal approach to interrogation, the cadre also reenacted several specific events reported to have occurred at Guantanamo.In most cases these reenacted events were counter productive to the interrogation plan developed by Team
In the summer of 2012 we flew from Amsterdam to Tel-Aviv to meet young Israelis and Palestinians and film their stories. We made contact with youngsters in Modi'in and Ni'lin. Two villages only a few miles apart, separated by the wall.The project was one of our last school projects and made without any commercial means. Additional footage and music were used, and are included in the credits. W
The Group is a feature length film and an attempt by filmmaker Bob Meehan to revisit his past in an effort to make sense of the 5 year journey he took through the world of adolescent drug abuse programs.The Group itself is one such network, created by Bob Meehan and operated by his son-in-law and protege Clint Stonebraker, its so called purpose was to help rehabilitate the youth but this docum